Warning! Shadows Approaching!

                Today in class we had somewhere around five to six shadows (it might have been more). After introducing shadows for the first fifteen minutes, we continued our go over of the video. We started a little bit farther back, so we went over some of the stuff we did a couple days before, and the day did consist of a lot of review. We did however look at more population pyramids and what certain spurts or shrinkage of population meant. We also discussed why there seemed to be many more boys in a country. Overall, parents want boys because boys apparently earn more money, and they can later use that money to take care of their parents in their parent’s old age. This happens because in most countries there aren’t assisted living homes for the elderly. To ensure that they get a boy (This being applicable with Japan’s one baby rule) rich families use money to do an ultrasound, then bribe doctors to do an abortion on the woman. This is very common, leading to more boys being born than girls in some countries. However, some poor families who can’t afford to get an abortion or an ultrasound just keep having babies until they get a boy, which does level out the population between boys and girls. Afterwards, we looked over the CIA website for population pyramids, then analyzed them and guessed why each pyramid had spurts if shrinkages of growth.